scholarly journals A Spatial History of Independent Art Spaces in Krakow from the 1970s to 2019

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Jarosław Działek
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
History Of

Independent art spaces not only play an important role in exploring frontiers in the visual arts but are often also pioneers discovering new artistic territories within cities. Due to their subordinate position in the field of art, they often occupy marginal spaces in terms of their location within the urban structure and/or in terms of their physical visibility within the built environment. Their location outside the established artistic cores reflects, at the same time, their weaker economic standing and wish to distinguish themselves from previous generations of cultural producers. Post-socialist cities offer the opportunity to study the spatial history of independent art spaces under different political and economic systems. In this paper, I have used a detailed database of private art galleries in the period from the 1970s to 2019 and content analysis of press and internet texts about them to uncover the stages of development of independent art venues in Krakow, Poland, an example of a post-socialist city with a rich cultural heritage. They included periods of dispersion within the wider inner-city followed by cycles of concentration in rather neglected quarters that were emerging as epicentres of alternative artistic life only to dissipate due to unfavourable economic conditions and the appearance of the next generations of artists who wanted to mark their distinctive presence both in the art world and in the urban space. I also discuss how independent art spaces were using their usually marginal, temporary and fluid sites in their artistic practices and the accumulation of symbolic capital in the field of art.

scholarly journals Toward an Alaskan Critical Regionalist Pedagogy

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Cruise Ship ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

In an era when urban space is theorized as an educative science enhancing productivity, business, and management, we witness the emergence of teaching as a dominant productive force for the first time in the history of capital. Given the decisive role of knowledge production in the development of globalized urbanization it becomes vital to identify critical pedagogies that not only engage the production of space but grasp the production of space as pedagogical. To do so, I attend to interventions into regionalist studies and the global city to argue for visual spatial tactics as a tool for a critical regionalist pedagogy capable of linking material, affective, and discursive practices with a placed-based approach to globalized urbanization. Students design a collaborative website documenting the spatial history of cruise ship tourism in Alaska as an argument over the right to the city. Identifying this living process—framing the cruise industry as a constitutive system fusing discourse, space, and identity to restructure history, nature, and region—becomes a means of questioning and revising otherwise generalized theories often brought to bear on tourist landscapes, on Alaska, and on critical pedagogy itself. This case study shows the emergence of the cruise ship city as inseparable from the onset of globalized urbanization and how it, in turn, provides edifying material to mobilize a critical regionalist pedagogy within contemporary forms of educative landscapes.

scholarly journals Introduction: governmentality, house numbering and the spatial history of the modern city

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
REUBEN ROSE-REDWOOD ◽  
ANTON TANTNER
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Technology

ABSTRACT:This special section of Urban History explores the spatial histories of urban house numbering and the calculative rationalities of government since the Enlightenment. More than a mere footnote to the history of postal communications, the house number was first introduced as an inscriptive device to serve a wide range of governmental purposes, from military conscription and the quartering of soldiers to census-taking and the policing of urban populations. The spatial practice of house numbering can therefore be seen as a ‘political technology’ that was developed to reorganize urban space according to the dictates of numerical calculation. The articles in this special section examine the historical emergence of house numbering, and related practices, in different geographical circumstances, illustrating the spatial strategies of governmentality and the tactics of resistance that shaped the spatial organization of the modern city.

ABOUT THE «HIPPODAM SYSTEM»IN THE PLANNING OF GREEK CITIES OF THE ERA OF ANTIQUITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
V.S. Teodoronsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
First Time

The article assesses the significance of innovative ideas of the ancient Greek architect, philosopher and urban planner Hippodamus for the development of modern urban planning. An ecological approach and zoning of urban space in a regular style made it possible to move from spontaneous development to a science-based approach. The "Hippodamus system" in urban planning is an ingrained concept in many theoretical works on the history of architecture and urban planning. In practice, the planning and construction of cities, in the process of their historical development, in certain natural, climatic and socio-economic conditions, there were principles that reflect the great achievements of the ancient Greek civilization. Hippodamus was the author of the regular layout of Greek cities. Subsequently, the hippodamus Planning model was developed in cities in Europe and America. The principles of regular development of ancient Greek cities, developed according to the Hippodamus system, are still used in world urban planning. For the first time in European practice, Hippodamus began to take into account local natural and climatic conditions when building.

scholarly journals Traditional African economies in conflict with western capitalism

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.M. Pauw
Keyword(s):  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
African Independent Churches ◽  
Independent Churches ◽  
History Of

Traditional Mrican economies  in conflict with western capitalism Some of  the fundamental differences between two  economic systems which, by  and large,  have  come  into  conflict with  one another  in Africa south  of the  Sahara  are  analised,  i e  traditional African  economies  and western, capitalist oriented  economies.  The  dire  economic  conditions prevailing  in Africa are the result,  to a  large extent,  of  a  long history of  exploitation and economic  disempowerment particularly  by  western  powers.  Not  all  the strategies and programs to  counter this poverty are equally appropriate or acceptable.  In  the  meantime  a  unique  coping  mechanism  is  developing, particularly within African Independent Churches which may provide some answers.

scholarly journals The city in archaeologists’ life in the 1920s and 1930s: along the streets of interwar Kyiv

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 467-481
Author(s):  
Anna Yanenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Institutional Formation ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

The article deals with the so-called urban themes in the history of archeology during the interwar period, the available sources and their informativeness for studying these themes on the example of Kyiv, the scientific urban center of the UkrSSR, are characterized. It is emphasized that urban space and orientation in it had has a significant impact on the science development, emergence and circulation of ideas, organizational/institutional formation and systemic transformations, interpersonal and institutional relationships within the intellectual community, the functioning of the professional community as a social institution. It was found that Kyiv, where the research life of Soviet Ukraine flourished without exaggeration, attracted many intellectual workers during the interwar period. Experienced researchers or beginners sought to get an education, position, practice; realize professional ambitions, not giving up hope to arrange satisfactory living and working conditions. Leading archeological institutions were located in the central part of the city: on Korolenka (now – Volodymyrska), Chudnovskyi (Tereshchenkivska), Victims of the Revolution (Trokhsviatytelska), Revolution (Mykhailo Hrushevskyi) streets, on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, etc. However, the Leninskyi (Pecherskyi) district of that time was considered a suburb. Everyday and solemn research meetings (sessions, exhibitions, conferences, etc.) usually took place in the central part of Kyiv. Archaeological research was carried out here during the 1920s and 1930s, although earthworks were constantly supervised on the outskirts of the city suburbs. Many researchers of antiquities, old Kyivan inhabitants, lived “in the center”, but archaeologists who came here during the interwar period from other towns (Uman, Poltava, Berdychiv, Chernihiv, etc) mostly lived on the city suburbs. Transport connections and communications influenced the perception of distance and life tempo, including research activities. Despite the mediocre and partly difficult living conditions, the city left time and created a space for entertainment and intellectual leisure. Studying the outlined topics, the so-called spatial history of the humanities, is indispensable and promising for a thorough contextual representation of the archeology development in Ukraine. Key words: history of archeology, intellectual community, city, Kyiv, 1920s, 1930s.

Peering Beyond the Imperial Gaze: Using Digital Tools to Construct a Spatial History of Conquest

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Mikecz
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatial Narrative

Ethnohistorians and other scholars have long noted how European colonial texts often concealed the presence and participation of indigenous peoples in New World conquests. This scholarship has examined how European sources (both texts and maps) have denied indigenous history, omitted indigenous presence, elided indigenous agency, and ignored indigenous spaces all while exaggerating their own power and importance. These works provide examples of colonial authors performing these erasures, often as a means to dispossess. What they lack, however, is a systematic means of identifying, locating, and measuring these silences in space and time. This article proposes a spatial history methodology which can make visible, as well as measurable and quantifiable the ways in which indigenous people and spaces have been erased by colonial narratives. It presents two methods for doing this. First, narrative analysis and geovisualization are used to deconstruct the imperial histories found in colonial European sources. Second it combines text with maps to tell a new (spatial) narrative of conquest. This new narrative reconstructs indigenous activity through a variety of digital maps, including ‘mood maps’, indigenous activity maps, and maps of indigenous aid. The resulting spatial narrative shows the Spanish conquest of Peru was never inevitable and was dependent on the constant aid of immense numbers of indigenous people.

Moment's Monument

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Hecker
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Single Culture ◽  
Modern Sculpture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) is one of the most original and influential figures in the history of modern art, and this book is the first historically substantiated critical account of his life and work. An innovative sculptor, photographer, and draftsman, Rosso was vital in paving the way for the transition from the academic forms of sculpture that persisted in the nineteenth century to the development of new and experimental forms in the twentieth century. His antimonumental, antiheroic work reflected alienation in the modern experience yet showed deep feeling for interactions between self and other. Rosso's art was transnational: he refused allegiance to a single culture or artistic heritage and declared himself both a citizen of the world and a maker of art without national limits. This book develops a narrative that is an alternative to the dominant Franco-centered perspective on the origin of modern sculpture in which Rodin plays the role of lone heroic innovator. Offering an original way to comprehend Rosso, the book negotiates the competing cultural imperatives of nationalism and internationalism that shaped the European art world at the fin de siècle.

Cinema Expanded

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Walley
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Film History ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Art World ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Expanded Cinema ◽  
History Of

Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia is a comprehensive historical survey of expanded cinema from the mid-1960s to the present. It offers an historical and theoretical revision of the concept of expanded cinema, placing it in the context of avant-garde/experimental film history rather than the history of new media, intermedia, or multimedia. The book argues that while expanded cinema has taken an incredible variety of forms (including moving image installation, multi-screen films, live cinematic performance, light shows, shadow plays, computer-generated images, video art, sculptural objects, and texts), it is nonetheless best understood as an ongoing meditation by filmmakers on the nature of cinema, specifically, and on its relationship to the other arts. Cinema Expanded also extends its historical and theoretical scope to avant-garde film culture more generally, placing expanded cinema in that context while also considering what it has to tell us about the moving image in the art world and new media environment.

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

COMBINING ORAL TRADITIONS AND BAYESIAN CHRONOLOGICAL MODELING TO UNDERSTAND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE GULF OF PAPUA (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Chris Urwin ◽  
Quan Hua ◽  
Henry Arifeae
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gulf Of Papua ◽  
The Village

ABSTRACT When European colonists arrived in the late 19th century, large villages dotted the coastline of the Gulf of Papua (southern Papua New Guinea). These central places sustained long-distance exchange and decade-spanning ceremonial cycles. Besides ethnohistoric records, little is known of the villages’ antiquity, spatiality, or development. Here we combine oral traditional and 14C chronological evidence to investigate the spatial history of two ancestral village sites in Orokolo Bay: Popo and Mirimua Mapoe. A Bayesian model composed of 35 14C assays from seven excavations, alongside the oral traditional accounts, demonstrates that people lived at Popo from 765–575 cal BP until 220–40 cal BP, at which time they moved southwards to Mirimua Mapoe. The village of Popo spanned ca. 34 ha and was composed of various estates, each occupied by a different tribe. Through time, the inhabitants of Popo transformed (e.g., expanded, contracted, and shifted) the village to manage social and ceremonial priorities, long-distance exchange opportunities and changing marine environments. Ours is a crucial case study of how oral traditional ways of understanding the past interrelate with the information generated by Bayesian 14C analyses. We conclude by reflecting on the limitations, strengths, and uncertainties inherent to these forms of chronological knowledge.

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